The Institute for Anarchist Studies is thrilled to announce the projects awarded with an Anarchist Horizons grant during our 2024 grant cycle.
“Hindi Introduction to Anarchism and Anarcho-Syndicalism” by Sarthak Tomar
India’s socio-economy seems to be swinging between ethno-nationalism, militarism and the neoliberal capital order. The people looking for available alternatives in texts, can only find authoritarian Marxism. My booklet will be an introduction to anarchism and anarcho-syndicalism in Hindi for the working-poor and activists.
Sarthak is an activist based in Bhopal, India. He runs Swasth Aazad Mazdoor Pehal, for organizing industrial workers around occupational safety and health issues. He is also a lawyer and takes up environmental and labour cases.
CHICAGO ’68 by Yoni Goldstein, Joe Dewhurst, and Ronen Goldstein
ANTIWAR-WARGAMES. Chicago based artists and designers present a hands-on demonstration about radical play and the history of political modeling and leftist war games. This will be followed with a collective play-through of our forthcoming historical conflict simulator: “CHICAGO ‘68” – a competitive board game about radical street theater, civil disorder, tear gas, and machine politics.
The CHICAGO ’68 project is led by experimental filmmaker and game designer, Yoni Goldstein, with UK based anarchist game developer, Joe Dewhurst, and video artist and animator Ronen Goldstein. We are collaborating on a series of events in Chicago against the DNC with the Co-Prosperity Sphere, Dissenters, Public Media Institute, and INT’L Cafe.
Sidenotes Podcast by Strange Matters
Strange Matters is a print magazine of economics, politics, and culture from a libertarian-socialist perspective published by one of the first self-managed, worker-owned cooperatives.
Sidenotes is Strange Matter’s standalone platform and podcast that introduces listeners to the voices of thinkers, creators, workers, and revolutionaries from around the world.
“Within, Against, and Beyond the State!” is an upcoming event series from the Libertarian Socialists of Portland. Over the course of a year, LSP will host monthly reading events, movie screenings, and community conversations to learn from real world examples of ongoing anti-state and abolitionist social movements, with an emphasis on putting radical ideas into practice in their local area. They hope to engage anyone – but especially people new to radical politics – in questions of what nation states are, how our social movements should relate to states, and what kind of world we might want to build beyond nation states.
The Libertarian Socialists of Portland is an experimental meeting space for anti-authoritarians to find each other, to pursue political projects together on a local level, and to cultivate the radical imagination in the broader public. Join us as we grow community, build dual power, and envision radical futures!
Revolutionaries, Rebels & Anarchists: The Women of the Mexican Liberal Party by Luis F. Olvera Maldonado
Translated by Blood Fruit Library Translation Collective
In the early 20th century, a network of women across Mexico and the United States articulated visions of freedom within newspapers like La Mujer Moderna, Hijas de Anáhuac, Sagitario, La Voz de la Mujer, and Vesper. These anarchist rebels organized a cross-border counterculture connecting regions like Bridgeport, Texas, Chicago, Illinois, Tijuana, Baja California, and Mexico City in efforts to overthrow the Porfirio Diaz regime and abolish all forms of authority and private property. This project will translate a new book by Luis Maldonado – which draws on a variety of documents including newspapers, surveillance records, pamphlets, and letters – to reconstruct the trajectories of this lesser-known network of conspirators.
This collaboration between anarchist print projects in Mexico City and researchers at Blood Fruit Library in Chicago aims to intervene in biases of archival recovery by compiling these stories for the first time in English, and placing Mexican and US anarchy within a common frame. Blood Fruit is an autonomous library, archive & zine distro of anarchist, underground and self-published literature that serves as an inclusive, intergenerational sanctuary where people can meet, connect and build new constellations of affinity.
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